jmdns accepted upstream

2009-11-20 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi there, I am just wondering if I missed any steps. jmdns was uploaded to debian a couple of days ago and it still says: todo: mentors.debian.net has version 2.1-1 of this package, you should consider sponsoring its upload. Last time a package was offically uploaded, somehow the one on me

Re: jmdns accepted upstream

2009-11-20 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:30:00AM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Last time a package was offically uploaded, somehow the one on > mentors detected that, and got removed automatically. Normally this is the case, but there was some work on mentors a few days ago that might have disturbed it, a

Re: How to do a survey on lbzip2 as a bzip2 alternative?

2009-11-20 Thread George Danchev
> Hi, Hi, > I'd like to ask users for their opinions about lbzip2 as a bzip2 > alternative in Debian, by requesting them to choose exactly one of the > following options, after reading my DebADay article [0]: > > > 1. I'd like to use lbzip2 as a bzip2 alternative. > > 2. I'd like to use lbzip

Re: RFS: xfe (updated package - new upstream release)

2009-11-20 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Hello Rogério, Am Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:45:42 -0200 schrieb Rogério Brito : > You should still give a hint (a short phrase is enough) that other > people worked on the package and give them credit. Done. > > > * you can remove comments from the watch file. > > Some lines came from the templa

RFS: iptotal (updated package)

2009-11-20 Thread Ignace Mouzannar
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.3.3-10 of my package "iptotal". The package was converted to the "3.0 (quilt)" packaging format. It builds these binary packages: iptotal- monitor for IP traffic, not requiring SNMP The package appears to be lintian clean (excep

Re: RFS: iptotal (updated package)

2009-11-20 Thread Barry deFreese
Ignace Mouzannar wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.3.3-10 of my package > "iptotal". > > The package was converted to the "3.0 (quilt)" packaging format. > > It builds these binary packages: > iptotal- monitor for IP traffic, not requiring SNMP > >

RFS: p2c (QA upload, RC bug fix)

2009-11-20 Thread Ruben Molina
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.21alpha2-3 of my package "p2c". It builds these binary packages: p2c- Pascal to C translator The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: - 437730 (wishlist, nostrip) - 552828 (serious, qa-ftbfs

Re: RFS: p2c (QA upload, RC bug fix)

2009-11-20 Thread Barry deFreese
Ruben Molina wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.21alpha2-3 > of my package "p2c". > > It builds these binary packages: > p2c- Pascal to C translator > > The package appears to be lintian clean. > > The upload would fix these bugs: > - 437730 (wis

Re: RFS: p2c (QA upload, RC bug fix)

2009-11-20 Thread Ruben Molina
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009, Barry deFreese wrote: Ruben Molina wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.21alpha2-3 of my package "p2c". Uploaded, thank you! Thanks a lot! Ruben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: How to do a survey on lbzip2 as a bzip2 alternative?

2009-11-20 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009, George Danchev wrote: Not that I can help with the surveys, but you may want to compare your compressor to the practical tests and comparisons found at [1], and eventually update your debaday article with the results. [1] (URLs might be wrapped) http://changelog.complete.or

Re: How to do a survey on lbzip2 as a bzip2 alternative?

2009-11-20 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
ERSEK Laszlo wrote: > A trivial reason to use bzip2 is to decompress a file downloaded from the > internet. If you have a multi-core CPU and the file was compressed with > standard bzip2, you might want to use lbzip2. Perhaps even automatically. If you download and decompress with bzip2, it takes

Re: How to do a survey on lbzip2 as a bzip2 alternative?

2009-11-20 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009, Nicolas Alvarez wrote: Decompressing concurrently with the download is faster than both: it takes a total of max(download_time,bzip2_time). The download is usually the slowest, so we can just say it takes download_time. On my machine, standard bunzip2 consumes about 3.6 MB

Re: Writing manpages: patch submitted to Developers Reference.

2009-11-20 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, I submitted the attached patch as bug #557298. Thanks to everybody who contributed to this thread, and have a nice week-end! -- Charles Index: best-pkging-practices.dbk === --- best-pkging-practices.dbk (révision 6986) +++

Re: How to do a survey on lbzip2 as a bzip2 alternative?

2009-11-20 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sat, 21 Nov 2009, ERSEK Laszlo wrote: > I *really* feel my work between lbzip2-0.15 and lbzip2-0.17, both > upstream and packaging, is down the drain. At the very least this work was of use to _you_ --- so it is not down the drain. > I was pestering the bzip2 and tar package maintainer

Re: How to do a survey on lbzip2 as a bzip2 alternative?

2009-11-20 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
ERSEK Laszlo wrote: > On my machine, standard bunzip2 consumes about 3.6 MB compressed input per > second. I subscribed to a mid-level residential internet package. I've > just downloaded a kernel tarball from kernel.org (199.6.1.164, Redwood > City, CA -> Budapest, Hungary), wget has been showi

How to properly register a program in KDE/GNOME

2009-11-20 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hello, I'm trying to get FreeMind files to be properly opened with FreeMind within KDE/GNOME (and probably other freedesktop compatible desktops), e.g. click in Konqueror on a FreeMind file (shown with the FreeMind icon) and FreeMind is opened with the file. I'm quite at the end of my knowle